Improvement in breech-loading fire-arms



l. G. BEAUMONT.

Breach-Loading 4Fire-Arms.

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WITNESSES ATTUBNEYS.'

UNITED STATES PATENT IEIcE.

ISRAEL G. BEAUMONT, OF GREEN BAY, WISCONSIN.

IMPROVEMENT IN BREECH-LOADING FIRE-ARMS.

Specification forming part of' Letters Patent No. 152,452, dated June30, 1874; application filed May 23, 1874.

To all uhom it may concern:

Be it known that I, IsRAEL G. BEAUMONT, ot' Green Bay, in the county ot'Brown and State of Wisconsin, have'invented anew and ImprovedBreech-Loading Fire-Arm, of which the following' is a specification:

My invention relates to means for fastening and untastenin g a barrelpivoted to the stock so as to swing the barrel up for putting thecartridge in and it consists in a catch-bolt and trigger connected withthe spring triggerguard, with a notched stud over the barrel, and soarranged that when the catch-bolt goes forward to en gage the notchedstud for fastening the barrel it will drop into a notch and be locked,so that it cannot escape and release the barrel except by the trigger,which is arranged for pulling it out ofthe notch and also pulling itback to free the lug when it is desired to free the barrel.

Figure 2 is a sectional elevation, showing the barrel tilted up forloading. Fig. 3 is a detail, showing the catch-bolt in plan View.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

The barrel A is pivoted to the stock at B, to be tilted up, as in Fig.2, for loading it at the breech. It has a notched lug, C, which dropsinto a notch, D, ofthe breech, for being fastened by the catch-bolt E,which engages the notch F. This catch-bolt is jointed at G to the springtrigger-guard H, for moving it forward into notch F. It is also jointedto a trigger, I, at its rear end, for pulling it back out of the notchF, also out ot the lockingnotch K in the breech, into which it fallswhen it goes forward, so that its shoulder L locks with the end M of thenotch. The trigger I lifts it out of the notch by its heel N turningagainst the breech and throwing the bar down. The same movement alsothrows the point of the bolt behind the shoulder P, whereby it is heldback against the action otl the spring-guard, so as not to interferewith the return of the lug with the barrel, and also so that when thelug` goes back the shoulder O will push the catch down out of the notchand let it go forward into the notch ot' the lug C. The catch-bar E hasa long slot in it, and a stud-screw, R, is arranged in it and screwedinto the breech to .keep the catch-bar in place, and also to serve as afulcrum for it to swing on for throwing the point up into notch K.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secureby Letters Patenti l. The catch-bolt E and triggerI connected to thespring triggerfguard H, in combination with the notched lug C ot' thebarrel, substantially as speciiied.

2. The notch or recess K, in combination with the catch-bar E, havin gthe shoulder L, substantially as specified.

3. The stud-pin R, iu combination with the locking-bolt E, trigger I,and spring-guard H, g

substantially as specified.

ISRAEL G. BEAUMONT.

Witnesses PLATT It. GREENE, HENRY SHURZ.

